SEC: HIT: Tardies

[Katie Bailey <music@N-JCENTER.COM>]

LM_NET friends,

Thank you so much for taking time to respond to my request for information
about dealing with tardies.  The students and administration at my school
thank you also!
                                        Enjoy this day :)
                                        Katie
Katie Bailey - Library Media Specialist
Seabreeze High School - www.volusia.k12.fl.us/schools/seabreeze
music@n-jcenter.com

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We have a block schedule--the A days have periods 1-4 and a 40 min. Acad.
Enrichment..  The B days have periods 5-8.  Believe it or not we have 8
minute passing periods which give students time to visit, use the
restrooms, drink water etc.  There is a warning bell when everyone
scurries to class.  If the student fails to make it on time, the teacher
keeps the student 3 minutes of the 8-minute passing time.  Students hate this
but it is not too painful for anyone.  It works well for us.  We do stand
in our doors to monitor the 8 minutes, but they have been relatively
peaceful.
Lynn McCree, Librarian
Martin Junior High
Austin, Texas
Lmcc@tenet.edu

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Katie:
        Your interest is in reducing tardiness.  All right.  The question
to address, then, is why are these occurrences happening?  Why are
individuals tardy?

        If the answer is because individuals who are judged to be tardy
are, in fact, electing to place higher values on some other area of their
lives AND we still expect to curb the activity, it rests in our court to
establish a higher value for being punctual for an agreed upon appointment
(i.e. a class, a convocation, etc.). Else it would be ludicrous to expect
others to simply acquiesce in contradiction of their existing values.
        If the answer is because it is condoned, and we elect not to
condone tardiness, well, not even capital punishment will curb the
practice.  Shame on us for expecting others to respect our bullying.
        Are we not teachers?  If we are teachers, we are failing in this
role when we simply REQUIRE that others conform, without honoring and
respecting them enough to appeal to Reason.  And such teaching must honor
and acknowledge THEIR Reason, rather than inappropriately and futilely
attempting to dictate through claimed, rather than earned authority.
        Please.  I trust those in your school to earn their authority.
When this succeeds there will be no tardiness issue (among other issues,
likewise resolved).
        Take care.  I wish you well.

*****
        The individual or institution which fails to honor and support
viable libraries is simply not credible.  For, a library, as a society, is
people, sharing in trust, for their mutual benefit and edification.  The
naive who fail libraries fail themselves.
        'Nuff said.
Jeffrey E. Kirkpatrick, teacher/learner
jeffkirk@sni.net

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Re: Tardies
        If late period 1 - 1 hour detention - to be served either next Tuesday
morning from 7:00-8:00 am or next Thursday afternoon from 3:20-4:20 pm. For
the other periods (2-7), student gets 1 hour detention after 3 tardies to a
period (or for me in the Library--after a total of 3 tardies, except for
1st which is an automatic.) Each semester is a new start. Those times are
also EXACT--no arriving at 7:03, etc.  If these are not completed, grades
are not mailed, students cannot buy tickets for PROM, and other such
privileges are revoked.

Jane DeNeve
HS - grades 9-12
rural Iowa
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Katie-
        A private school, so we may be different, but for us 3 tardies to
one class = a class absense and then the student must serve detention.
Detention here is 7:00 - 10:00 at night. (study hours are 7:30 -9:30 so the
detention cuts into their very limited free time).

Martha Clement
Tilton School  (Independent school grades 9-12)
30 School Street
Tilton, New  Hampshire  03276
email: Martha@tiltonschool.pvt.k12.nh.us
voice: 603 286-1752
FAX:  603 286-3137

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Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 18:08:21 -0500 (EST)
From: Bonnie Mong <bmong@r8esc.k12.in.us>
To: Katie Bailey <music@N-JCENTER.COM>
Subject: Re: HS: TARGET: Tardies and Bears!

This is from our student handbook

Tardy Policy

When tardy for first period, a student must sign in at the attendance
office.  The student will receive a tardy slip that will allow him to
enter first period class.  Any student arriving more than fifteen minutes
late will be considered absent for the period, and this will count as one
of his four absences per nine-week grading period.  When counted as an
absence, a phone call is required as stated in the attendance policy.

It is understandable that circumstances may arise that cause a student to
be tardy to school.  However, tardies are considered excessive when a
student reaches four during a nine-week period at which time the student
is assigned to Friday school.  A Friday school is then assigned every
time that the student continues to be tardy.  Thus, any four tardies to
school result in a Friday school assignment; and once the student reaches
four tardies, he will serve a Friday school for each tardy thereafter.

Tardies other than first period:  Students who are tardy other than first
period should report directly to class.  No tardy passes will be issued
from the attendance office.  Tardies to classes will be handled in the
following manner:
Tardy l - warning from instructor
Tardy 2 - warning from instructor
Tardy 3 - detention assigned by instructor
Tardy 4 - two detentions assigned by instructor

Additional tardies - A reduction in the student's course grade as deemed
appropriate by the instructor for each additional tardy.

Note: Friday school is from 3:00 to 6:00.  Kids weren't coming to
Saturday school, so this helped.  Last period teachers escort students
assigned to Friday school.

Huntington North High School  Huntington, IN
Bonnie Mong    bmong@r8esc.k12.in.us
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From: crevelin@qni.com (Alice J. Creveling)
Subject: Re: HS: TARGET: Tardies and Bears!

Not really. Any suggestions would be appreciated.  One morning principal
"lost it" and brought the tardy line to lst hr. into the office and had each
student call his parent about being tardy.  And all it did for most was
gritch because the principal had made them miss all of first hr. instead of
the first 10min.  Somehow they don't understand that getting to school and
in the classroom at 7:40 means 7:40 not 7:41 and it was the student's fault
that s/he didn't get to class that day.>